WARLIKE GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 251, 13 March 1913, Page 5

WARLIKE GERMANY

j DAXCKiI FROM FiiAXCE. M 1 LI TAI! V i>R PAR AT lOX S. By Cubic—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, March 11. Tljo Cologne Gazette. in a remarkable U'tiolo, swys lluit it would 1 not be dilik'lllt for the Co vcrnment to prove tlic necessity for the Army Bill, if it could point wit limit concealment to the quarter whence the next (lunger threatened. namely. France. Never lias tlie revanche idea shown itself so undisguiseiily. France claims the support, of Ki'.ssia inn! Britain. nieriiy to reconquer her lost. provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. It is certain that we shall ha ve to cro-s swords wiili France. The Lohal An&sscr >•«vs the Army Hill proviile- for an increase of 08.0!)!) recruits, so tht«t in (wo years eighteen regiments. which are now a battalion short, will he bronchi up to the three battalions standard. - Six new cavalry regiments will lie formed, and the stock of horses increased by oft,111)1). The frontier companies will also he s,trengthencd. THE WAR (IF IXJJEPEXDFAVE. Berlin. March 11. The festivities in connection with the centenary of the commencement of the War of Independence in March. 1811!. have begun. The Kaiser, in a glowing eulogy of the army, referred to its prowess during the past century. THE WAR TAX. Received 12, !)..10 p.m. Berlin. March 12. It is estimated that the Kaiser's private fortune is C7.-i<l().0(]!l. on which he pays war tax. The Duke of Saxe Altenburg's taxable fortune is .CH.OtlO.OO!). Tlic Kai.-er's is fifth on the list of great estates laid under contribution. PRESS CRITICISM. Received 12. !)..">t) p.m. Berlin. March 12. The Tageblatt disagrees with the Cologne (lazettc's allegation that France is a danger /.one. The Parisian newspapers, it says, are not altogether blameless for the det"iioration of Franco(iernian relation?. The Xcusie Xacliriehten declares that the Cologne Gazette's article is only an echo of Chauvonistie France. The Cologne Oazette says that Mr. Asquith's speech has created an agreeable impression. Ccriiiany is gratified with the declaration tiiat she will not be obliged to send troops to the Continent. Received 12, 11.20 p.nl. Paris, March 12. Lc Temps, commenting 011 the, Cologne Onzette's article, invites the (lernian press to reconcile the conflicting declarations that the new armamcits are due to the new situation in the Balkans and to a desire of France for revenge. Le Temps adds that if is the old story of the wolf and the lamb, with the difference that now the lamb is in 110 fear of being devoured. Arrogant (lermany is 110 longer confronted by isolated France and isolated Russia. They are now perfectly allied. The measures taken in France are no threat. If there be a threat it is from Oerniany.